the best thing i can say is that at least the mornings-after were relatively bright-eyed and regret-free for a change. maybe we'll go another week.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Saturday, August 1, 2009
oh, for christ's sweet sake
.
have you seen this story?
seems our glorious leader has decided--in the interests of avoiding even the merest appearance of impropriety or conflict of interest, you understand--to start charging guests at the white house for their meals.
and i can totally see his point--i mean, you give a few captains of industry some government largesse on the scale of a free chicken sandwich, a glass of iced tea and a cookie stamped with the presidential seal, it could look pretty bad.
[whereas the fact that his re-election committee will no doubt hit those same captains of industry up for thousands of dollars in campaign contributions for his 2012 run--why, there's no conflict of interest there; that's just politics as usual, right?
yeah, right.]
the thing about this small-minded, petty idiocy that bothers me the most (aside from its classless tackiness, of course) is the cynical assumption that the american people are so stupid as to be swayed by such charades as this.
on second thought, that's not the thing that bothers me the most--what really scares me is the thought that this isn't the cynical ploy that it appears, and that barack actually believes his own bullshit.
because that's just what we need right now--another carter.
[note: this was just a little test-rant--you know, see how well i handle indignation sober]
have you seen this story?
seems our glorious leader has decided--in the interests of avoiding even the merest appearance of impropriety or conflict of interest, you understand--to start charging guests at the white house for their meals.
and i can totally see his point--i mean, you give a few captains of industry some government largesse on the scale of a free chicken sandwich, a glass of iced tea and a cookie stamped with the presidential seal, it could look pretty bad.
[whereas the fact that his re-election committee will no doubt hit those same captains of industry up for thousands of dollars in campaign contributions for his 2012 run--why, there's no conflict of interest there; that's just politics as usual, right?
yeah, right.]
the thing about this small-minded, petty idiocy that bothers me the most (aside from its classless tackiness, of course) is the cynical assumption that the american people are so stupid as to be swayed by such charades as this.
on second thought, that's not the thing that bothers me the most--what really scares me is the thought that this isn't the cynical ploy that it appears, and that barack actually believes his own bullshit.
because that's just what we need right now--another carter.
[note: this was just a little test-rant--you know, see how well i handle indignation sober]
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